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by gems 13y ago
>If helping people is a good motive, why isn't helping yourself? It's a matter of what you think is right. Do you want to have a philosophical discussion? >If you state it on HN, you can deal with people disagreeing with it, without
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by gems 13y ago
I made the comment because I don't think we should be reaching this level of discussion. We should be discussing something like how we're going to help people, rather than giving each other steps on getting employed. I have a tendency in be
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by gems 13y ago
My opinion is that it (exactly what I stated, nothing more) is most likely a manifestation of insecurity, rather than a product of anything that's not superficial (desire to help people, for example). I'm not telling you how to lead your li
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by gems 13y ago
You should work on redefining your goals if all you're concerned about is working at Google, or at another large company.
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by gems 13y ago
Most probably have a functional understanding of it, but do not have an intuition. Is the teaching supposed to provide an intuitive sense of how big certain units are? What difference does it make?
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by gems 13y ago
I don't find it offensive, I just find it troubling. The talent can be used more effectively in other areas. This bothers others at varying degrees. I don't believe this has anything to do with my own fears. I still admit that that psycholo
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by gems 13y ago
Why bother?
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by gems 13y ago
You're never going to find a book tailored for you that walks you through everything. Pick any book, learn from it, experiment, make mistakes.
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by gems 13y ago
Let people take risks. They can die if they'd like.
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by gems 13y ago
Everyone should learn about the great philosophical questions.
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by gems 13y ago
How are you going to learn theoretical physics by yourself? Lol. Do you have any idea how much math something like string theory uses?
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by gems 13y ago
Not this shit again. "It’s pretty well established that non-science degrees are not necessary for a job. In fact, the degrees cost you too much money, require too long of a commitment," The people who choose to get them usually have a passi
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by gems 13y ago
>This is actually folly: both vimscript and lisp are both turing complete language (read can both make a computer do everything a computer is capable of doing), so even know LISP might have nicer syntax/cooler paradigm, what have you: i
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by gems 13y ago
... How is that confusing? Not recognizing her own face is a special case.
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by gems 13y ago
>Constructing these overwrought sentences with the dashes and the semicolons and the vocabulary and whatnot just makes you look like an insecure sophomore trying to cover up inexperience with excessive verbiage. You're uncomfortable wit
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by gems 14y ago
That was completely unnecessary. There's no reason to think that it's a reference to the former in such a context.
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by gems 14y ago
It's obvious that things fall towards the center of the earth. Yet, you have hordes of physicists searching for a mathematical reason for why it happens. The point here is that nobody cares whether or not 'it is obvious' to you. Lots of thi
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by gems 14y ago
No, I think you are just awful at trolling.
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by gems 14y ago
>My own experience is that there are PLENTY of programmers who have used, say, PHP and Python, but who you wouldn't want to touch your C codebase in a pair-programming session. There are plenty of programmers that wouldn't want to touch
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by gems 14y ago
>Always remember going from something difficult to simple is easy, but going from something simple to difficult is not easy. Great. There are plenty of hard working people to make this "piece of wisdom" completely worthless. >Starti
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by gems 14y ago
They weed the people who don't want to do the work for the classes. That's all. The classes don't necessarily teach practical things. There are only 2-3 classes you have to take which involve "heavy" programming: data structures, operating
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by gems 14y ago
The only thing I asserted in that comment was that you can't ask the computer to help you (effectively) in a naive search when the space is large or infinite. I'm not familiar with how theorem provers work, so I'm most likely wrong anyway.
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by gems 14y ago
I can say this happens with undergrads at UC Berkeley.
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by gems 14y ago
Give me an example of how this is done or can be done.
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by gems 14y ago
Matter for what?
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by gems 14y ago
How does a computer help when you have conjectures involving infinite mathematical structures or extremely large numbers? You can't ask the computer to enumerate the solutions for you. You have to reason in a roundabout way, possibly buildi
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by gems 14y ago
I've had similar experiences. It's a curiosity of mine understanding what makes people successful in that kind of environment.
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by gems 14y ago
Is it smarts or having a "good" perspective on what to focus on? Or is that the same thing?
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by gems 14y ago
The undergraduate computer science program is fucking awful. 1. As you say, the introductory classes are enormous. For the math classes this means less feedback on your assignments. What this also means is that you have other undergrads gra
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by gems 14y ago
There are downsides to this if you're in STEM: less preparation and rigor.

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